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| Thread ID: 57669 | 2005-05-09 06:42:00 | TV reception | Greg (193) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 353579 | 2005-05-09 06:42:00 | When my neighbour mows his lawn or a plane flies overhead my TV reception goes wonky. Any idea why? Thx |
Greg (193) | ||
| 353580 | 2005-05-09 06:53:00 | lawn mower ignition system produces heaps of interference and planes bounce the tv signal back to you so end up with multi path ghosting (ie 2 signals arriveing factions of a second after each other. shows up as a ghost of the first signal). nothing you can do about the plane short of missles ;) but it might be possible to rig the lawnmower with suppressors to cut out a lot of the interference. hope that helps |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 353581 | 2005-05-09 07:04:00 | I thought it might be something along those lines. Interesting. Thx. | Greg (193) | ||
| 353582 | 2005-05-09 07:39:00 | Tell the inconsiderate little **** to kindly not mow his lawn during your favourite TV shows. ;) |
manicminer (4219) | ||
| 353583 | 2005-05-09 07:47:00 | Tell the inconsiderate little **** to kindly not mow his lawn during your favourite TV shows. ;) heh heh Actually I only noticed it today after living here for 3 years because I rarely put the TV on so early |
Greg (193) | ||
| 353584 | 2005-05-09 10:54:00 | Improving your TV aerial may help, especially if it is old and run in ribbon cable. Even coaxial cable will deteriorate over time and water getting in will make it worse. If it is a problem, overhaul all of the aerial connections and check for corrosion at the antenna head. If the primary signal is weak, aircraft reflections will be more obvious and external interference (lawnmower) will also be worse. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 353585 | 2005-05-09 11:04:00 | On an unrelated note... ...Mrs Metla is wondering why our TV reception is so poor at the moment, I dare say she has not yet noticed I cut the cable about 3 feet below the arial, spliced in a line that feeds into my shed, then taped the entire mess together with a good 15 feet of sellotape...... muhahahahaha. Lets hope she doesn't call in an arial guy, we will have much the same situation as we did a while back when she had telecom send out a tech, who found all my personal modifications in record time...... |
Metla (12) | ||
| 353586 | 2005-05-10 04:55:00 | Lets hope she doesn't call in an arial guy, we will have much the same situation as we did a while back when she had telecom send out a tech, who found all my personal modifications in record time...... What modifications had you done |
sambaird (47) | ||
| 353587 | 2005-05-10 05:03:00 | Not much, Most of it was storm damage, a tree came down, Landed on the wire into the house,gave an almighty yank snaping the wire . When I went to join them back together they didn't reach each other anymore, so I added about a foot of wire to fill the gap, all spliced together like the work of a drunk blindman, then wrapped in copious amounts of duck tape . In the beddroom I had broken the phonejack while moving a bed, so I removed it spliced the phone into the naked wires, Looked beautiful,and the phone would cut out if anybody walked within 15 feet of it . Phone calls were a mixture of static,clicks,hissing and shouting . Now, What you realy want to see is my plumbing . . . . . . . |
Metla (12) | ||
| 353588 | 2005-05-10 05:19:00 | Well my partner who at the time was working for Telecom as senior exchnage tech - decided extra phones in the garage and all over the place was a great idea so wired them from the master with jumper wire, under our damp house. Not phone wire - jumper wire. Then the modem went to s***, he refused to believe it had anything to do with it until I asked a colleague around and he re-wired it with proper phone wire and cured it. Hehe, my partner said thats cause he installed and maintained the exchanges and wasn't a wiring guy. Yeah right. |
pctek (84) | ||
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